Standing in the almost burned Austrian camp to ruins, Scharnhorst's face can be said to be very ugly, the fire that the Austrians left not only burned most of the Austrian camp to ashes, but also caused more than 1,000 casualties among the Prussian forward cavalry.
When he learned of this result, Scharnhorst bit his lip to the death, knowing that from Bayreuth to Bamberg, the three divisions could already be described as suffering heavy casualties, and the remaining soldiers were undoubtedly veterans necessary to rebuild the three divisions in the future.
And because of a negligence on the part of Lawrence, more than half of the 2,000 cavalry were killed or wounded, which means that the six cavalry regiments of the three divisions can be said to have been completely destroyed by the Austrian army.
At present, the two division commanders of the 17th and 18th divisions have not yet received news, but Scharnhorst believes that once Otland and Buschman get the news, then there is no doubt that Lawrence, the leader of the forward cavalry, will be hated by these two division commanders, and at the same time, even Scharnhorst will be discussed by the two division commanders, after all, it was he who personally appointed Lawrence, a fool, as the commander of the forward cavalry.
"Come on, bring that idiot Lawrence over for me, and I'll let him see with his own eyes the wrongs he has created!"
Scharnhorst angrily gave the order to the guards beside him.
After a while, Lawrence was escorted by several soldiers to the front of Scharnhorst, and when he saw the commander of the cavalry regiment in front of him, who he once regarded as a confidant, the anger in Scharnhorst's heart did not come to a place, and before everyone could react, he saw that Scharnhorst stepped forward and kicked Lawrence in the chest regardless of the reserve he needed as a general.
"You idiot!
I have painstakingly placed the remaining 2,000 cavalry of the entire army into your hands, but look, look what you've done!
The order I gave you was to hold off the Austrian troops, and I did not let you trespass into the camp of the Austrians.
You pig!
” As he spoke, Scharnhorstyu County kicked Lawrence who was kicked to the ground in confusion.
But at this moment, Lawrence seemed to be stupid, and let Scharnhorst kick and beat, but he didn't say a word.
"Your Excellency, General, no!"
A group of officers of the 3rd Division hurriedly surrounded Scharnhorst, only to see that Scharnhorst actually pulled out his saber from his waist.
"Get the hell out of here.
I don't know if this idiot has fallen into other people's homes, and to keep such a person is a complete disgrace to our Prussian army, anyway, he will definitely be handed over to the gendarmes after the war, it is better for me to finish him off first, and save the name of shame for our third division!
” Scharnhorst's words did not disperse the group of officers surrounding him, but rather tightened the crowd.
"Your Excellency, General.
For the sake of Colonel Lawrence, for all the years since he saddled up the 3rd Division, you will forgive him once!
Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and you can't kill the pillars of the 3rd Division out of a moment of anger!
” It was Sibel, the commander of the 10th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division, who had been friends with Lawrence for many years and was also a fellow countryman, so Sibel definitely did not want to see Lawrence die at the hands of Scharnhorst.
After saying that, Siebel looked at Scharnhorst and had no intention of changing his mind.
I saw Siebel fall to his knees with a thud.
"General, for the sake of my life and death for you all these years, I beg you to let Lawrence go!"
"Sibel, you're going against the sky, get out of here immediately, it's none of your business here!"
"Your Excellency, you also know that Lawrence and I have been friends for many years.
Life and death brothers, my daughter may have been given to Lawrence's son, if you kill Lawrence, then you will kill me with you!
” The weight of this sentence cannot be said to be unimportant.
William has absolute trust in Scharnhorst, so since Scharnhorst assumed the post of commander of the Third Division, William completely let Scharnhorst carry out the transfer of officers from various subordinate divisions of the Third Division, so most of these middle-level backbones of the Third Division were promoted by Scharnhorst's cronies.
At this moment, seeing that Scharnhorst's heart was a little shaken, the officers who had been around him immediately clamored.
"Your Excellency, General.
His Excellency Scharnhorst is at fault, but he is not at fault!
” "Your Excellency, General, please open your net!"
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In the face of the pleas of many of his subordinates, Scharnhorst suddenly couldn't bear it.
With a bang, the saber that Scharnhorst had raised in his hand was thrown to the ground again.
"Lawrence.
Even if you kid usually be a man in the army, since so many colleagues intercede for you, then I will not punish you for the time being, but your actions have led to huge casualties among the forward cavalry, so not punishing is not enough to appease the grievances of the soldiers, come on!
Escort Lawrence down for me and whip him with twenty lashes, and I will never be soft, and if anyone is soft, don't blame me for punishing him together!
” After Scharnhorst's words landed, Lawrence hurriedly threw himself on the ground "General Xie's grace not to kill!"
So saying, Lawrence let Scharnhorst's guards escort him down to receive the twenty whips.
Although the Prussian forward cavalry suffered heavy losses in this battle, Maninstein performed exceptionally well in the forward army.
Not only did he call on a large number of Prussian troops to join the battle in a short period of time, but also because he held the gate of the barracks, more Prussian cavalry were able to escape.
Moreover, Maninstein's final arrangement of nearly 300 cavalry led by Varik to pursue the Austrian army also achieved certain results, under the leadership of Varik, these 300 cavalry gave full play to their speed advantage and bit the Austrian army's rear troops, so that these Austrian troops finally had to throw down a large number of materials that affected the speed of the march, including twenty heavy artillery, which allowed Varik to take a small advantage.
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Originally, these artillery pieces should have been transported a long time ago, but because Ian felt that in order to quickly withdraw under the nose of the Prussian army, there must be a large amount of mobile force, and it was obvious that after a skirmish with the Prussian army, the rear of the palace troops would not have much physical strength left, so some of the artillery was arranged to go with the troops of the palace, which could not only use the artillery carriage to carry the wounded, but also allow the rear troops to speed up the march.
The outstanding Maninstein and Varik were naturally received by Scharnhorst, who were subsequently commended by Scharnhorst and promised to take credit for them.
After all this, Scharnhorst gave up the idea of continuing to pursue the Austrians.
Since his messenger to Maninstein sent a briefing, he ordered the army to rush here without sparing physical strength, and then the search and rescue of the wounded also consumed a lot of time, according to the distance I am afraid that the Austrian army has opened a distance of dozens of miles, and obviously with most of the cavalry units annihilated, the Prussian army has lost the ability to pursue.
At the same time as Scharnhorst's partial victory, the 1st Division, led by Dafilia in Bavaria, finally appeared on the outskirts of Munich.
The news of the arrival of the Prussian army in the city terrified all the inhabitants of Munich, especially the henchmen of Itans and the pro-Austrian aristocracy.
Despite its population of hundreds of thousands and nearly 10,000 defenders, Munich lacked confidence in the face of the Prussian army outside the city.
The reason why Itans ascended to the position of Archduke of Bavaria was precisely because of the support of Prussia, and after Itansi came to power, as a reciprocat, officials close to Prussia occupied most of the Bavarian court, and after these officials came to power, they instilled a strong and invincible Prussian influence in the whole Bavaria through their influence, and even wrote the words "Prussian friendship and love are stronger than gold" in the textbook of Bavarian primary school students in Shanghai.
Although Itans purged these officials, after several years of hard work, the Prussian army's unparalleled abilities seem to have been implanted in the minds of the Bavarian people, and Itans's actions made him hostile to most of the Bavarians.
You must know that Itansi's purge of the upper echelons of Bavaria involved nearly a hundred nobles and officials, and all of these people have a certain amount of influence behind them.
Coupled with the fact that Bavarian merchants generally benefited from the honeymoon period in Puba, it was incomprehensible to the sudden war of Etans against Prussia.
The most direct reflection of these effects was in Munich, when the Prussian army appeared on the outskirts of Munich, rumors circulated in Munich that the Prussians were avenging the officials who had been purged by Etans, and these rumors even described the Prussian army outside the city as tens of thousands.
In addition, most of the guards in Munich at the moment are young and strong people who have been temporarily recruited, so it is not an exaggeration to describe it as panicking.
It stands to reason that the total population of the entire Duchy of Bavaria is more than 3 million, and even if you choose one out of 100, there should be 30,000 troops, and you must know that the military-civilian ratio of many countries is 50 to 1 or even 10 to 1.
In fact, the main reason for this is the importance of Bavaria's geographical location, Bavaria is not only close to Austria, but also borders Bohemia and the Main region, so Prussia and Austria will naturally not allow Bavaria's military strength to grow, after all, when the two powers compete, no one wants to suddenly have a neutral force with a lot of strength around them.
The uncertain and uncontrollable Bavaria was not something Austrian and Prussian wanted to see.